ADAM, SIR CHARLES (_eld. son of Wm. Adam 1751–1839, lord chief comr. of jury court of Scotland by Eleanora Elphinstone 1749–1800 2 dau. of Charles, 10 baron Elphinstone_). _b._ Brighton 6 Oct. 1780; entered navy 15 Dec. 1790; captain 12 June 1799; captain of Invincible, 74 guns 1811–1813; of Royal Sovereign yacht 15 Dec. 1814–7 Feb. 1816, and 20 July 1821–27 May 1825; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837; commander in chief, North America and West Indies 17 Aug. 1841–May 1845, when placed on half pay; admiral 8 June 1848; M.P. Kinrossshire (lib.) 20 May 1831–3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 24 Dec. 1832–23 June 1841; Lord Lieut. of Kinross 1 April 1839 to death; 1st naval Lord of Admiralty 25 April 1835–8 Sep. 1841, and 24 July 1846–20 July 1847; one of elder brethren of Trinity House 1839–41; Governor of Greenwich hospital 10 July 1847 to death; K.C.B. 10 Aug. 1835. (_m._ 4 Oct. 1822 Elizabeth dau. of Patrick Brydone of Lennell, F.R.S., she _d._ 1871). _d._ Greenwich hospital 16 Sep. 1853, _bur._ there 21 Sep. ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (_younger son of above named Wm. Adam 1751–1839_). _b._ 1781; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 26 foot 4 Nov. 1795; lieut. col. 5 garrison battalion Aug. 1804 to 5 Jany 1805; lieut. col. 21 foot 5 Jany 1805 to 4 June 1814; served in Sicily 1806–11; Aide de camp to Prince Regent 8 Feb. 1811; commanded a brigade in Spain 1813; the third British brigade at Waterloo 1815; and a division at Malta 1817–22; K.C.B. 22 June 1815; G.C.B. 20 June 1840; G.C.M.G. 27 Dec. 1821; invested at Corfu 15 Jany. 1822; grand master; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 7 April 1824–8 Sep. 1832; P.C. 29 June 1831; governor of Madras 25 Oct. 1832–4 March 1837. (_m._ (1) at Corfu 23 June 1820 Diamantino Pallatiano, she _d._ at Rome 1 June 1844. _m._ (2) at Kensington 24 July 1851, Ann Lindsay dau. of John Maberly). _d._ at Greenwich railway station 17 Aug. 1853. _Siborne’s War in France and Belgium_ 1848; _Napier’s Peninsular War, book xx, chapter 4 and book xxi, chapter 2_. ADAM, JAMES, _b._ Paisley 1809; worked at the loom; went to London 1834; edited the Aberdeen Herald 1834 to death; author of _The knowledge qualification_: a plan for the reciprocal extension of education and the franchise 1837. _d._ Old Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1862.